Bug 700542

Summary:	=sys-fs/xfsprogs-5.3.0 should not install static library /usr/lib64/libhandle.a (?)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-11-19 08:13:36 UTC

I am not sure whether /usr/lib64/libhandle.a is useful at all as compared to its dynamically loaded siblings, but it seems to be an oversight to unconditionally install it.

Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-11-19 09:05:45 UTC

We are aware of libhandle.a. At the moment it gets installed because now that the package is building twice all the time we see no point in removing that small file.

Once we get a new, working, xfsdump, we will re-evaluate situation and check if we need libhandle (including .so) at all.